Matty White

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New Weaponary from Merida

Hey Folks,

This is the new Time Trial frame from Merida which I received the other day. It is called “the DARK NIGHT” and its a new version of the Time Warp which I have been riding all season. I can;t wait to get this machine on the road, the guys at TRAK CYCLES in Norwood are decking it out complete with Shimano Di2 componentry which will be awesome to use.

I will keep you updated as the bike gets built, it should be ready and rolling at the Victor Harbor Triathlon so keep an eye out.

Matty

The New Weapon

South Australian Championships 2010

Another year down and I found myself on the start line defending my State Championships which I have won the past few years.

This year the race was held in Kingston South East which is one of the best races on the SA calender and a great place to visit, it is one of the best fishing towns in SA as well, hence the reason I always swim well here as I want to get in and out of that water ASAP.

The community really gets behind this race which is what makes it so special, right from the Carbo party on Saturday night until presentations the feel of the race was positive and fun. A big congratulations must go out to the organisers who stepped it up this year attracting a record field.

My personal feelings on this race were a little bit apprehensive in that I had been really run down and unwell after Geelong 70.3 the week before so I had no idea how my body was going to react in a 2 hr race. I found that out in the first 100m in the swim when an interstate competitor took the swim out pretty hard, I managed to hang on his feet with Dan Lock, and about 1000m in the swim I moved up toward the front having a good swim exiting in equal 1st spot. On to the bike and I decided to lay it down on the first 13km lap to see where my fitness was, I was lucky enough to find that I had a comfortable lead during the bike to exit on the run about 3 minutes clear, which is always comforting. I managed to hit a nice rythm on the run clearing away to win by over 4 min and breaking my race record from last year by 3 min on a day where the wind was a lot stronger. That was my 4th State OD Championships and I was really happy with how the race went, it was good to see Shane Johnson recover from an average swim to take 2nd and newcomer Chris Wigell taking a close 3rd.

Next on the agenda now is a hard Ironman prep phase which I am looking forward to as the weather has been great in RADelaide and is continuing right through next week.

Here are some shots from the weekend, and a shout out to my mate and fellow firefighter Andrew French who raced his first OD tri and finished in 2.20hrs, he will kill me for putting the photo up on my website as no doubt he will cop a lot from the boys at the Fire Station…..and he is much bigger than me so I am running scared!

Matty

My good mate Frenchy tearing up the run leg!

The Spoils of winning a race in a fishing town!

Geelong Race Report

Another year down and I found myself back at Geelong 70.3 standing in transition with just about every Australian pro athlete who races long course give or take a few, I honestly thought last yr was such a great field that a lot of athletes wouldn’t be there this yr, but I was mistaken with the race packed with big names such as Alexander, Berkel, Shortis, Griffen, Rahula etc. It was going to be a hard fast race and a top 5 result was my goal.
Luckily everything went well without a hitch and I made my way to the swim start in the pristine waters of Corio Bay, the swim for me went well after skimming over about 5 jellyfish I managed to come out on the feet of Leon Griffen and Tim Berkel about 20 seconds off the main pack with Alexander and co. I started to feel really good on the bike and we caught the main pack at about 5km into the bike ride, with only Clayton Fettell off the front about 1 mninute up the road. I probably felt a little too good on the bike and had a few digs at trying to get away, I managed to get a small break at the start of lap 2 with Berkel but it got shut down pretty quickly.

Into transition the main group which contained all the big names hit transition with a 3 mninute deficit to Fettell, and the pace was on straight out of transition with Alexander and Schokmann setting a 3 minute km pace from the gun. This pace really created carnage amongst the field with athletes slowing down and blowing up on the first lap. I managed to settle into the run after not feeling great on the first run lap and eventually finish strong in 6th place in a quality field with Alexander showing he is a true class act taking out the event for the 2nd straight year ahead of Griffen and Berkel. So first race down in 2010 and I have a big schedule of races in February and March culminating in the Murrayman event and Port Macquarie Ironman before I head over to the US in April for the full season!
I would like to congratulate my wife Danielle who had a great race and finished in 5.30hrs which was a great effort exceeding all expectations, and also my manager Dan Roberts from DTR who cranked out a massive 13min PB and is going to Clearwater.
The only downside to the Geelong race was the emergence of the SUPER PELETON age group packs, as I was heading back into town I noticed 2 distinct packs of about 50 plus athletes on the other side of the road. Firstly I actually thought it was a Geelong group cyclist bunch heading out until I saw tri bars and disc wheels and realized it was part of the race. I am not sure what the solution is to this problem and I hope the new WTC will implement something to counteract it, but the one thing I do know for sure is that not only is it dangerous but it also doesn’t look good and something needs to be done about it before our sport becomes a laughing stock….
Thanks to everyone for the great support on race day as it was much needed to get me through a tough day…

Matty

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